Word: abstraction
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...long been inhabiting. Truth is, most of the time Eno can't stop smiling at the thought that that moment may finally be upon us. Behind him on a giant wall-mounted plasma screen is his latest reason to be cheerful. Layers of gorgeous, intensely colored abstract images appear, morph and dissolve into one another then fade away into something entirely new. Entitled 77 Million Paintings, this is the state of Eno's "generative art," the term he coined 14 years ago to describe what happens when you hand over artistic control to a random process. Though it is based...
...deaths of a lot of people in a single stroke, as opposed to those that kill in a chronic, distributed way. "Terrorism lends itself to excessive reactions because it's vivid and there's an available incident," says Sunstein. "Compare that to climate change, which is gradual and abstract...
Gaur said that he received 120 abstract submissions...
...kitchen canvas to Korea in a 1998 show and worked with him on an installation shortly before his death, Smith knows him inside out. Hanging the exhibition in loose chronological order, he places the 1992 painted interior, Spartan Space, inspired by Modernist De Stijl furniture design, amidst early white abstract works, making plain Arkley's influences. In the following room, he artfully arranges a 1983 suite of street-culture canvases, Tattooed: Head, Hands, Penis, Feet, in the form of a Surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse, making the connection to Arkley's student days at Prahran College...
...formative punk years in the '70s and '80s, assuming everyone has read Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar's Spray: The Work of Howard Arkley (1997). As they documented, it was his 1981 mural Primitive, named after a song by The Cramps, that saw Arkley paint his way from an abstract to a figurative style. Perhaps it was his life-long love of doodling that drew him to the airbrush, but this isn't something the new book makes clear. Instead, Gregory (and Smith in the show) bring new insights to Arkley's work by exploring the carnival theme. From...